Everyone wants a gold star. As a personal friend often puts it, “Wouldn’t it be nice to get a pat on the head and a cookie every once in a while?”Read More »
by Karen Newhouser, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCS, CCM
The typical pay for performance (P4P) program provides a bonus to healthcare providers if they meet or exceed agreed-upon quality or performance measures. Quality. If I had a dollar every time that “buzzword” was used in the healthcare...Read More »
It’s a scenario many CDI specialists face: After spending hours reviewing a physician’s documentation and carefully crafting query after query, the physician responds with “unable to determine” or “clinically insignificant.” It may seem frustrating to get an answer like this.Read More »
by Trey La Charité, MD
Even though primary care physicians (PCP) need CDI expertise, many remain unaware of how the medical landscape around them has changed, and many more simply do not believe that their practice has to change. If the PCPs in your network are reticent, the...Read More »
A recent survey conducted by The American Hospital Association and Executive Health Resources (EHR) found that 98.5% of participants reported that their physicians could improve their documentation practices.Read More »
When Melanie Halpern, RN-BC, MBA, CCDS, CCRA, CDI manager at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, began her CDI career in 2004, she didn’t have international aspirations. When she found out about the International Surgical Health Initiative (ISHI), she had to get involved. We...Read More »
